Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender & Sexuality

<p>This <i>Handbook </i>offers a rich survey of topics concerning historical modern and contemporary Chinese genders and sexualities.</p><p>Exploring gender and sexuality as key dimensions of China’s modernisation and globalisation this <em>Handbook</em> effectively situates Chinese gender and sexuality in transnational and transcultural contexts. It also spotlights nonnormative practices and emancipatory potentials within mainstream heterosexual-dominated and patriarchally structured settings. It serves as a definitive study research and resource guide for emerging gender and sexuality issues in the Chinese-speaking world. This <em>Handbook</em> covers interdisciplinary methodologies perspectives and topics including:</p><ul> <li>History</li> <li>Literature</li> <li>Art</li> <li>Fashion</li> <li>Migration</li> <li>Translation</li> <li>Sex and desire</li> <li>Film and television</li> <li>Digital media</li> <li>Star and fan cultures</li> <li>Fantasies and lives of women and LGBTQ+ groups</li> <li>Social movements</li> <li>Transnational feminist and queer politics</li> </ul><p>Paying acute attention to nonnormative genders and sexualities and emphasising the intersectionality of gender sexuality nationality ethnicity and class this Handbook offers an essential field-defining text to Chinese gender and sexuality studies.</p>